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> Humans have more than the commonly cited five senses. The number of senses in various categorizations ranges from five to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristot
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Which "secure computing element" are you using?
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You can add https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances#one-click-... to UBlock Origin as a custom list instead of removing them yourself. Disclaimer: I've never tried it.
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> In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". > Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not o
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You can find the rest of the ASCII symbol names (there's 34 in total) here: https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-syntax/
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The people that fought and manned the factories in World War II.
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The URL is right there, above the search result title. Just the / has been replaced by a > and it's been made a more human readable. To the average person it's even more prominent now. I'm looking forward to this chan
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There's historical precedent for this https://xkcd.com/1341/
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The Ian Knott for tying your shoelaces a little faster
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Sign Language in Virtual Reality [video](youtu.be)
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I really hope people that are burying physical copies of the entire Wikipedia are archiving the entire edit history and not just a snapshot that hides all the ongoing edit wars. It's a much larger dataset (terabytes) so they probably a
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How do you specify Python dependencies and their versions in Nix?
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A good way to make people run proprietary software they control.
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Linux distros should make tasks that are just link collecting as easy as editing Wikipedia and make contributing not require learning git, their syntax and giving out your real name or creating an account. I've seen StackOverflow quest
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They mapped a pretty large area of the ocean floor looking for that wreckage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190380
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128Kbps for 1 month is 42GB https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=128Kbps+for+1+month
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https://sourcehut.org/ https://nest.pijul.com/
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You've just put your trust in the VPS provider, you haven't "trusted no one".
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You meant to say "That's easy. Trust any Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider instead"
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You can also use Programmer Dvorak, where you have to use shift to type numbers instead of symbols and the numbers are laid out as in Dvoraks original keyboard, so that the index fingers are typing the most common ones 7531902468 https:&#x
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The thing about computer generated layouts (as with all computer optimizations) is that it optimizes an evaluation function and not the actual process of typing. And who knows how closely your function that scores how good a keyboard is mat
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If you have a Pixel phone, open the camera, scroll right to More, open Lens and point your phone at a (human readable) URL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens
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The address bar is a thousand times cooler than my terminal because it understands English and does package management automatically, often in under a second. I just wish it could convert files.
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The fact that GitHub marks the initial commits as 2016, and says 48 years ago when you click on one, even though it clearly says 1787 in the commit message makes me sad. All these 6 figure salaries and we still can't write code that ha
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It's just a matter of time until the "marketers" catch on. Maybe they already know and just haven't found a way to prove the business case because there's no easy way to measure how much some locked Reddit thread fr
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Either the XPS 13 or a MacBook Air.
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autocomplete=off is set by website developers, not users.
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In Python there's SymPy. It simplifies expressions and then you can ask for the answer as a number to N decimal places. >>> from sympy import N, sqrt, pi >>> N(sqrt(2)*pi, 50) 4.442882938158366247015880
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If Bel doesn't have irrational numbers, how do I use pi? Define a function that returns an approximation to a given precision?
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If you've memorized the arcane vim commands, try Spacemacs or Doom Emacs. http://spacemacs.org/ https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs In magit in those Emacs distributions, the question mark brin

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